Gallery: Garden pond flora

Creeping jenny

Creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia) is a very low growing native plant ideal for softening the hard edge of a pond. Planted outside the pond it will rapidly grow and trail into the water providing a very useful means of entry and exit for pond animals.

Technical Information: Photographed with a Minolta Dimage Z1.

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